About library

This document contains all information about libximc library. It utilizes well known virtual COM-port interface, so you can use it on Windows, Linux, MacOS X for Intel and Apple Silicon (via Rosetta 2) including 64-bit versions. Multi-platform programming library supports plug/unplug on the fly.
Each device can be controlled only by one program at once. Multiple processes (programs) that control one device simultaneously are not allowed.

Supported OS and environment requirements:

• MacOS X 10.6 or newer
• Windows 2000 or newer
• Linux debian-based. DEB package is built against Debian Squeeze 7
• Linux debian-based ARM. DEB package is built on Ubuntu 14.04
• Linux rpm-based. RPM is built against OpenSUSE 12

Build requirements:

• Windows: Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 or newer, MATLAB, Code::Blocks, Delphi, Java, Python, cygwin with tar, bison, flex, curl, 7z mingw
• UNIX: gcc 4 or newer, gmake, doxygen, LaTeX, flex 2.5.30+, bison 2.3+, autotools (autoconf, autoheader, aclocal, automake, autoreconf, libtool)
• MacOS X: XCode 4 or newer, doxygen, mactex, autotools (autoconf, autoheader, aclocal, automake, autoreconf, libtool)